From the land of Boeing

[Lyconthrous]

I've been checking out flight sim forums for a while now, planning on building another flight sim. I've enjoy reading what I've found on this forum, so I've finally joined.
My background; my last sim was a desk with a single monitor, keyboard and mouse, I had a yoke, joystick, throttle, and pedals. About as basic as you can get. I've had a private license and was an active member of the EAA for 14 years. My main interest is in experimental aircraft. I don't mind flying the big iron or fighters, but there's nothing like the old $100 hamburger run checking out the surrounding airports and scenery.
Here's my basic plan; do a 'ell of a lot more research. I'd like to be able to switch between yoke, center stick, and side joystick. But that looking like more of a pipe dream.I like the 3 screens with the Furnell lens. Get all of the gauges and switches off the computer screen. Use a touch screen for the instrument panel so I can switch from the old 6 pack to a glass panel and still have touch control.

[Geremy Britton]

Welcome to the forum, nice to have another addition to our ever growing flight sim builders community!
I will look forward to following your progress.

Best Regards

[surveyor780]

I love multifunctional sims! Looking forward to your contributions

[Lyconthrous]

Thanks guys, I'm taking it kind of slow. The world has change from the days of game port controllers. LOL... I'm basing the sim off of Roland's 3 screen basic design. Just finished switching out the 17" monitors to 24 wides, Using Sketch Up for all the layout work. Right now I'm trying to figure out how I fit the computer into the design. Thinking about maybe a mini, mid tower, or 4U rack case. I've got a few different ideas about how to pull off the controls. The touch screen is going to be a bit harder, looks like I'll need to learn some new programming skills. But living in Seattle, I have friends that work at both Boeing and Microsoft that I can black mail into helping with the project. So I might use the Saitek panels to get started and upgrade later after I figure everything out. So many different ways to go and more research to figure them out.